SUMMARY AND OUTLINE OF “PERFORMING THE WORD: PREACHING AS THEATRE” BY JANA CHILDERS (1998). This is shared as a resource for the internet universe. All errors are my own
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“I’m from country music, Scrabble tournaments, and mildly neurotic over-achievers…”
“This weekend I attended a formation retreat where we were given the assignment to construct a “Where I’m From” poem using this template. I’m not much one for poetry, so this was a challenge. Nonetheless, I did my best. Enjoy.”
Speaking prophetically to one’s community; daily office commentary on Matthew 10:17-28.
“For most of my life I thought that speaking “prophetically” meant seeing the future or speaking in the role of a divinely authorized leader of a religious institution. In Jesus’s context, though, prophets most often emerged not from the leadership of the institutional political or religious class, but rather from the people, and sometimes even from outside the religious community. They were tasked with calling the institution, its leaders, and its community to repentance.”
Hazelnut Notes 